wyszukanych pozycji: 86
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A Critic's Journey
ISBN: 9780472117062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ilan Stavans has been a lightning rod for cultural discussion and criticism his entire career. In A Critic's Journey, he takes on his own Jewish and Hispanic upbringing with an autobiographical focus and his typical flair with words, exploring the relationship between the two cultures from his own and also from others' experiences. Stavans has been hailed as a voice for Latino culture thanks to his Hispanic upbringing, but as a Jew and a Caucasian, he's also an outsider to that culture---something that's sharpened his perspective (and some of his critics' swords). In this book... Ilan Stavans has been a lightning rod for cultural discussion and criticism his entire career. In A Critic's Journey, he takes on his own Je... |
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365,15 zł |
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Quinceañera
ISBN: 9780313358241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceanera celebration's growing social importance to in the Latino community, particularly in the United States. The essays explore the "quinceanera" and the coming-of-age ritual from various angles. Prior to 2007, the "quinceanera" received no formal ritual through the Catholic Church, which has since issued one. As such, the role of religion and the Catholic Church in the "quinceanera" celebration is given extensive consideration. Gender, family status, class, race, as well as the aspects... This volume compiled by Ilan Stavans examines the importance of ritual and celebration and the quinceanera celebration's growing social importance ... |
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392,39 zł |
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The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories
ISBN: 9780810151925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is a celebrated storyteller whose work has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered numerous international awards. The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories contains three masterful gems. The novella, "Morirse esta en hebreo," is a thought-provoking meditation on continuity and tradition among Mexican Jews; "Xerox Man" is an intriguing story about a book thief with a bizarre theological obsession; and the title story, "The Disappearance," is the resonant tale of a Belgian actor who...
Hailed as one of the most important Hispanic writers of his generation, Ilan Stavans is a celebrated storyteller whose work has been translated into a...
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100,29 zł |
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The Essential Ilan Stavans
ISBN: 9780415927543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ilan Stavans is one of the foremost Latino scholars and here his best essays are collected into one volume. These beautifully written pieces explore the breadth of contemporary Latino-American culture, depicting and analyzing what he calls "life in the hyphen". Illustrations.
Ilan Stavans is one of the foremost Latino scholars and here his best essays are collected into one volume. These beautifully written pieces explore t...
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191,00 zł |
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The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories
ISBN: 9780195110197 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this remarkably wide-ranging anthology, Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weaving these diverse viewpoints and voices into a rich portrait of Jewish literary tradition.
The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories takes us from the mid-1800s right up to the present, encompassing the full spectrum of Jewish writing around the world. The variety of tales captured here is stunning. Readers will find stories such as "A Yom Kippur Scandal" by Sholem Aleichem, the father of Yiddish literature; "Before the Law" by Franz Kafka; "Looking... In this remarkably wide-ranging anthology, Ilan Stavans has collected the work of more than fifty notable Jewish writers from around the globe, weavin...
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170,57 zł |
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The Scroll and the Cross: 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature
ISBN: 9780415929318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This eclectic book of readings presents the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some 70 canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, through whose diverse oeuvre - poetry, fiction, theatre, personal and philosophical essays, correspondence, historical documents and even kitchen recipes - the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history, from Spain in the 10th century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This eclectic book of readings presents the ups and downs of that partnership. ...
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191,00 zł |
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Popol Vuh: A Retelling
ISBN: 9781632062406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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98,78 zł |
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Health Care
ISBN: 9780313364907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming fully acculturated consumers of health care. Its series of chapters by expert contributors bridges the communication gap between mainstream medical professionals who need to understand the Latino worldview and Latinos that need to adapt to the puzzling complexity of providers and insurers that make up the American health care system. Backed by research using quantitative methods and other techniques, "Health Care"'s seven chapters cover topics ranging from infant care to teenage dating and sexual mores to prescription... This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming fully acculturated consumers of health care. Its series of chapters by expert con... |
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392,39 zł |
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Oy, Caramba!: An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America
ISBN: 9780826354952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writers from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in eastern Europe as well as Spain. . . . The anthology includes tales by such masters as Alberto Gerchunoff, . . . a large number of innovative women writers, and some authors more familiar to English-speaking readers. Library Journal Reminds us that society south of the border is just as multicultural as in the US, and that Jews have played an important role in it since the time of the Spanish conquest. Publishers Weekly Jewish identity and... Writers from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, and other countries represent an ethnically diverse culture with roots in east... |
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143,85 zł |
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Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots
ISBN: 9780813551913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. After a stirring e-mail exchange with his father, awardwinning essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans decided to do something bizarre: revisit his hometown, Mexico City, accompanied by a tourist guide. But rather than seeking his roots in the neighborhood where he grew up, he headed to the Centro Historico, the downtown area at the heart of the world's largest metropolis. It was there that conversos, the hidden Jews escaping the might of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, were burned at the stake. And, centuries later, it was the same section where Jewish immigrants, both... After a stirring e-mail exchange with his father, awardwinning essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans decided to do something bizarre: revi... |
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155,85 zł |
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With All Thine Heart: Love and the Bible
ISBN: 9780813547978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Is the Bible actually a love story between a deity and a people? And what does this love story have to do with the modern world? In With All Thine Heart distinguished cultural critic Ilan Stavans speaks to freelance writer Mordecai Drache about love in the Bible. Presented in an engaging, conversational format and touched with striking artwork, the textured dialogue between Stavans and Drache is meant to show how the Bible is a multidimensional text and one that, when considered over the course of history, still has the power to shape our world. The theme of love provides the connective...
Is the Bible actually a love story between a deity and a people? And what does this love story have to do with the modern world? In With All Thine Hea...
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110,55 zł |
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Once@9: 53am: Terror En Buenos Aires
ISBN: 9780271077543 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2016 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror en Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela. Part documentary, part fiction, this vivid retelling of Argentina's deadliest bombing... At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Ar... |
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79,12 zł |
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The Scroll and the Cross: 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature
ISBN: 9780415929301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This eclectic book of readings presents the ups and downs of that partnership. It includes some 70 canonical authors, Jews and non-Jews alike, through whose diverse oeuvre - poetry, fiction, theatre, personal and philosophical essays, correspondence, historical documents and even kitchen recipes - the reader is able to navigate the shifting waters of history, from Spain in the 10th century to the Spanish-speaking Americas and the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
Jews and Latinos have been unlikely partners through tumultuous times. This eclectic book of readings presents the ups and downs of that partnership. ...
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653,56 zł |
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On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
ISBN: 9780142000946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been his primary language. In this rich memoir, the linguistic chameleon outlines his remarkable cultural heritage from his birth in politically fragile Mexico, through his years as a student activist and young Zionist in Israel, to his present career as a noted and controversial academic and writer. Along the way, Stavans introduces readers to some of the remarkable members of his family-his brother, a musical wunderkind; his father, a Mexican soap opera star; his grandmother, who arrived in...
Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been his primary language. In this rich memoir, the ...
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98,78 zł |
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Lazarillo de Tormes
ISBN: 9780393938050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Ilan Stavans' new translation, which accurately captures the verve of the original.
This Norton Critical Edition is based on Ilan Stavans' new translation, which accurately captures the verve of the original.
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68,74 zł |
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Singer's Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture
ISBN: 9780803271364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly and deftly as he manages the multiple perspectives of a dual national, religious, and ethnic identity.In Singer s Typewriter and Mine, a follow-up to The Inveterate Dreamer (Nebraska, 2001), Stavans interweaves his own experience with that of other Jewish writers and thinkers, past and present, to explore modern Jewish culture across the boundaries of language and nation. Juxtaposing...
A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, ...
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102,69 zł |
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A Pre-Columbian Bestiary: Fantastic Creatures of Indigenous Latin America
ISBN: 9780271087870 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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79,12 zł |
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On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language
ISBN: 9781438471495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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382,45 zł |
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Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language
ISBN: 9780060087760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influential markers of an America gone Latino. Spanish, present on this continent since the fifteenth century, when Iberian explorers sought to colonize territories in what are now Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and California, has become ubiquitous in the last few decades. The nation's unofficial second language, it is highly visible on several 24-hour TV networks and on more than 200 radio stations... With the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish... |
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69,93 zł |
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Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years
ISBN: 9780312240332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of Garcia Marquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As Garcia Marquez's impact endures on well into his ninth decade, Stavans's keen insights constitute the definitive re-appraisal of the literary giant's life and corpus. The later part of his life will be covered... This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of Garcia Marquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Y... |
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148,13 zł |